PostPartisan Archive: Rodriguez

The Justice Department has just announced that it will no longer defend in court the Defense of Marriage Act -- the Clinton-era law that forbids the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. The department's press release says that the...

Sam Alito won't be there, but will John Roberts? I'm talking, of course, of the president's State of the Union Address and the question of whether Republican Supreme Court appointees will attend. You'll recall that the speech raised a...

Even hundreds of miles away, you can probably hear the blizzard of F-bombs sweeping down from the Great Lakes. They're from Rahm Emanuel, the profanity-happy former chief of staff to President Obama, who was stricken from the Feb. 22...

Anyone worried about the potential for cameras in the courtroom to create a circus atmosphere should take a peek at the televised hearings in the Prop 8 appeal. (You can probably still catch a replay on C-Span.org.) The subject...

I'm a little surprised to be writing this, but I sort of feel sorry for Ginni Thomas. The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Ginni has just announced that she will be relinquishing control of Liberty Central, a...

Dear Ginni, Wish you were here – really, really wish you were here. You might not believe it, but even in Europe your little call to That Woman, Ms. Hill, has made headlines. Nothing like fending off questions about...